Category Archives: Wallpapers
Nature Wallpaper: The Riches of Autumn
Nature Wallpaper: One Aching Foot
Rural Wallpaper: Damp, Chill January
Tooty’s been a-fiddlin’
When I presented the model of the next Earplug Adventure’s space ship – namely the honeymoon barge of Magnuss and Hair-Trigger the Tankerville Norris…
…I pretty much admitted that it was no ‘looker’, but that it had an excellent name. I also stated that I would make the ship believable. Well here are a few shots of it ‘in action’. We’ll start with a beauty shot…
…which proves that even the stubbiest, ugliest ship in all creation can look good from one angle. Here’s one of it in an atmosphere under cover of night…
This one looks like it might have narrowly avoided a huge explosion or disaster…
And this one clearly had either Magnuss or Hair-Trigger hitting the ‘Go Faster’ button…
So, as you can clearly see, I haven’t been entirely idle. As regards the story: other than the couple becoming a…well…a couple, I don’t have much clue. But just to get my ageing creative juices flowing I’ve given it a non-sensical title that should stretch me somewhat, and hopefully the plot will reveal itself to me. And that title is ‘The Lines of Tah-Di-Tah‘. I wonder what it means? I do make life difficult for myself, don’t I!
Nature Wallpaper: Forbidden Fruit
Actually these fruit weren’t forbidden at all. The only reason people hadn’t picked them is because they taste vile. But they make a nice wallpaper, so they do have their uses.
Earplug Adventure Wallpaper: A Cold Day in ‘The Age of Stone’
Look how Magnuss and Hair-Trigger disapprove of the weather. Maybe it’s time for a new adventure…
Nature Wallpaper: Yew in the Morning Sun
Country Life Wallpaper: Exit Stage Left
If I were ever to do this, I’m sure I’d never want to come back down…
I’d also use a yellow sail, or whatever it is those lifting things are called.
Nature Wallpaper: Cling!
Wallpapers of the Tooty Kind
Having concluded my important task of the day (I can do only one per day: two taxes my memory too much), I sat myself in front of my laptop and began fiddling with some pictures I took whilst on a wander through a tranquil graveyard the day previous. This is what caught my attention…
A novel step over a flint wall – complete with hole for slipping a foot into, or allowing a small dog to pass. The scene itself makes a pleasant wallpaper. But I felt that the hole was the real star. So, on my first pass I created…
…a scene through a window on an ice planet. Hmmm, might use that in an Earplug Adventure. My second pass brought forth…
…the interior of a defensive position during battle. Hmmm, might use that one too. And on my third pass I created…
…the view from a cell in an alien prison. And it was this one that gave me an idea for another Age of Stone story. If, during the Age of Stone, all technology is based upon rocks and stuff, then surely they would make their star ships from stone too! Have to put my thinking cap on now. Could this be the forty-second Earplug Adventure e-book in the making? Bloody hope so: I don’t have any other ideas!
Wallpaper 629: Looked Down Upon
Tooty’s Edible Wallpapers: Peppers in the Rain
NATURE WaLLPAPER: sEEDS BY SUNSET
Would You Believe It?
…But I was reading John Wyndham’s classic novel, The Day of the Triffids…
…when I got the distinct feeling I was being watched. Spooky!
Nature Wallpaper: The Unfortunate Flowery Dick Plant
I know, it happens to all of us eventually. Or is it just me?
Tooty’s Lavatory Bowl Art: Nightmare Forest
I wouldn’t want to find myself alone there.
Photography: Setting Up a Picture Without the Slightest Effort
Other than my Earplug Adventure scenes, I don’t set up pictures: I just snap what I see. Well most of the time anyway. There are occasional exceptions, of course. For example: do you think that Tooty might possibly have parked his blue car behind these bright yellow Calafornia Poppies – just for the juxtapositioning of their delightfully contrasting hues?
You do? Then you would be correct. Sometimes you gotta help art along.
Nature Wallpaper: Sunset on Ears
I just knew, when I downloaded this from my tiny Canon SX420 (and then posted it on Flickr) that it was going to be a hit – at least by my standards. I was right!
Nature Wallpaper: Pattern of the Fern
Nature Wallpaper: The Leap
Earplug Adventures Wallpaper: Chester on the Steps of Hades
Actually the Hades scene is nothing more than a picture of a huge tree stump that I coloured red on my computer. But I didn’t tell Chester that.
Sharing: The 3 Amigos
Earplug Adventures Wallpaper: A Scroton Five Emerges from a Hyper-Space Conduit Above the Museum of Future Technology.
S.A.D: And Why the British Vacation Abroad
Raincoats and umbrellas: an absolute neccessity. Not fun.
Symbiosis
An Earplug Adventure Wallpaper: In the Absence of a Lavatory…
Yellow Flag Reflected
Art with a Capital F: A Tear in the Fabric of Space/Time
I see weird stuff everywhere. Here’s the proof…
Standing Out From the Crowd
Wallpaper 628: Meadow Hunting
Normally my photos struggle to gain ten ‘likes’ on Flickr (after all the standard is terribly high, and there’s some very fancy cameras out there). This one seemed to follow the usual path – until I’d sat myself down to breakfast – to discover that, over night, fifty people had found this nice enough to let me know. Captured the essence of Summertime perhaps?
Tooty’s Digital Fart
I’d like to title this ‘Tooty’s Digital Art’, but, in all honesty, can I really call this ART?
Well gosh and all that – it’s another alien life form!
Wallpapers 625, 626 & 627: Tranquil / Hare Today / Flee!
As I stood, stock-still, in the middle of a sun-drenched meadow – framing this shot…
…a movement at the periphery of my vision made me pause a moment longer. I was then able to watch as a lone Hare loped towards me in a stop-start fashion – eventually arriving before me and totally unaware of my presence…
Unfortunately my autofocus chose that moment to ‘beep’.
Did I ever mention how much I dislike autofocus?
A Lifeline for Nature
In England many farmers are paid to leave parts of their land fallow for several years, and turn it over to nature. Some go so far as to sow seeds of plants known to be of benefit to endangered species. The results have been very heart-warming to those who give a damn about the creatures that share this land with us. And areas that would otherwise be an uninteresting mono-culture, look like this…
And this…
If we keep this up, who knows, we may yet save the world from ourselves.
Wallpaper 624: Colour co-ordinated Countryside
